Adobe After Effects CS4 classroom in a book, Adobe, 2009
Web designers will want to read this tutorial for Adobe’s excellent tools. The plain cover does not do justice to this book. 350 pages, with a DVD containing sample files.
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Adobe After Effects CS4
Monday, February 8th, 2010Learning ActionScript 3.0
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Learning ActionScript 3.0 : a Beginner’s Guide / Rich Shupe, O’Reilly, 2008
A book for web designers and non-programmers who want to program with ActionScript. 350 pages, large format.
Dreamweaver Bible
Friday, November 6th, 2009Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Bible / Joseph Lowery, Wiley, 2009
Here is a book on the ultimate HTML editor. 1200 pages.
ActionScript 3.0
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
ActionScript 3.0 / Derrick Ypenburg, Peachpit, 2009.
Here is a good introduction to Adobe’s flavour of JavaScript for creating Flash apps. 300 pages.
Getting started with Flex 3
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Getting started with Flex 3 / Jack Herrington, O’Reilly, 2008
This book will help you develop Flash or RIA applications. It’s amazing how much useful info for a beginner programmer they can pack into a pocket sized book. 125 pages.
Adobe Photoshop elements 6 maximum performance
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Adobe Photoshop elements 6 maximum performance : unleash the hidden performance of elements / Mark Galer, Focal Press, 2008
Here is a great guide to Photoshop Elements, and claims that you can get the same professional quality results as if you used the full version of Photoshop. It has a DVD containing supporting images and movies.
Flex 3 bible
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Flex 3 bible / David Gassner, Wiley, 2008
This book is about Adobe’s commercial IDE for creating Flex web apps. It would also be useful if you are using the open source Flex SDK, without the IDE. The book is huge at 1000 pages and very readable.
Flash and PHP bible
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Flash and PHP bible / Matthew Keefe Wiley, 2008
If you want to code a decent web site, PHP and Flash are the tools that will get it done quickest (though perhaps not the most secure, maintainable, or performant). Here are 500 pages of tutorial and sample code to help you get it done.
Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web application construction kit
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web application construction kit / Ben Forta, Peachpit Press, 2008
If you are using ColdFusion, this looks like a useful book.
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Dreamweaver CS3: the missing manual
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Dreamweaver CS3: the missing manual / David Sawyer McFarland, Pogue Press/O’Reilly, 2007.
With 1000 pages of text, and small pictures of dialogs every second page or so, this book might be the best way to learn Dreamweaver. No code examples! The book is not written by David Pogue, but his picture and bio are prominent on the back cover. The author deserves more credit for writing an excellent book.
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